Val Hull

Val Hull

Resident role-playing RPG game expert. Knows where trolls and paladins come from. You must fight for your right to gather your party before venturing forth.

Pathfinder: Kingmaker Developer Livestream

A few days back, Paizo’s franchise manager Mark Moreland and Pathfinder’s creative director James Jacobs joined a couple of Owlcat Games’ developers for a three hour long livestream of Pathfinder: Kingmaker. During the livestream, the tabletop and the cRPG guys…

The Elder Scrolls Online – End-of-year Events Detailed

If you like The Elder Scrolls, in-game events, promotions, and prizes, then you should direct your attention to this article on Bethesda’s website that details the so-called #OurElderScrolls event for the studio’s MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online. This multifaceted event…

Quest for Glory III and IV – The Digital Antiquarian

A few months back, Lori and Corey Cole released Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption, a spiritual successor to their Quest for Glory series of RPG/Adventure game hybrids. And if you’re not as familiar with that particular series as you’d like, the…

Battle Brothers Developer Blog #109 – The Kraken

The upcoming Beasts & Exploration DLC for Battle Brothers will introduce plenty of new regular monsters, but also three new boss-type enemies. One of those is the Kraken that will try to lure you into its swamp with glowing lights…

Colin McComb Interview

Colin McComb, a veteran video game writer and RPG designer who worked on Dungeons & Dragons, Fallout 2, and Torment: Tides of Numenera among other things, recently had a chat with PCGamesN, talking about the differences between writing for a…

Din’s Legacy Early Access Update, Previews

Ever since going into Steam Early Access back in September, Soldak Entertainment’s upcoming RPG Din’s Legacy has been receiving regular balancing and bug-fixing updates. And now, along with the usual fixes, the latest update also introduces a number of changes…

Call of Cthulhu Launch Trailer

Cyanide Studio and Focus Home Interactive’s Lovecraftian detective RPG Call of Cthulhu is set to launch just in time for Halloween, on October 30, 2018. And if you’d like to watch the game’s foreboding launch trailer that invites us to…

The Waylanders Developer Livestream

Gato Salvaje Studio’s Kickstarter campaign for their time-travel RPG The Waylanders is currently sitting at $55,967, with 21 days left to gather roughly $100,000 on top of that. In order to help promote the campaign, the developers participated in a…

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Update #57 – Patch v3.1 Live

The latest Fig update for Obsidian Entertainment’s Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire directs our attention to the recently released v3.1.0 patch for the pirate-themed RPG that simplifies the game’s UI, adds the ability to adjust the radius of certain spells,…